php[architect]

If you wish to set up a private Git server for your personal, work, or team projects, but favor free software and simple architecture, or don't want a service hosted by a third party, then Gitolite is...

Over the last nine months, I have talked about all of the things you should be doing as a technical and developer lead. There are many things that you should be doing, and I hope that so far the advic...

Over the last few years, PHP has grown up and become a much nicer language to work with. The introduction of scalar parameter types, return types, and a host of other features has vastly improved the...

Welcome to the first installment of The Workshop, a column where we try out new tools and techniques to hone our craft. We'll be covering frameworks, packages, tools, and exploring topics related to t...

All too often developers are tasked with aesthetic decisions and designers tasked with programmatic decisions. Blurring the lines of an aesthetically oriented mind or programmatically oriented mind cr...

In this article, we're going to look at using event and command buses to fulfil the use Cases of Uncle Bob's Clean Code Architecture. By using commands and events, we will help our code have meaningfu...

Something nearly every PHP developer does is develop scripts that parse, or extract, information from text documents. There are many reasons why parsing is important, ranging from scraping information...

In this series, we look at using Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) and specification by example to develop a RESTful API. In Part Three, we focus on the HTTP verbs directing any RESTful API. Understan...

Package managers like Composer make it quick and easy to add third-party libraries to an application. Unfortunately, they can also make it easy to import code that's not meant to run in production—and...

In a way, that title is misleading, because, in the end, this article is going to be primarily about the Microsoft acquisition of GitHub. However, it's a great time to use that as a discussion point o...